This week
U.S. Agencies Issue Stern Rebuke of China-Based AI Companies Over Alleged Distillation
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Covered by 3 sources Export controls went after China’s chips. They never touched the capital, and Moonshot is reportedly seeking $5bn.
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The Next Web Chinese businesses are giving away AI tokens with coffee, credit cards, and dumplings
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Rest of World This month
Z.AI Misses Lofty Sales Estimates As China AI Brawl Worsens
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Bloomberg Moonshot and Nvidia Talks Show Chinese AI Models Moving into the Enterprise
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Hacker News Moonshot AI in Talks with Microsoft, Amazon, Google over K3 Revenue Sharing
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Hacker News Moonshot AI wants 30% of what US clouds earn from Kimi K3
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The Next Web I Tried Kimi Agent and Here’s What I Found
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KDnuggets GLM-5.3 Scores 60 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Matching Kimi K3
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Unite.AI Testing Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 Inside Claude Code
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Hacker News A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
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Covered by 2 sources The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
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TechCrunch One of China’s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment
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Covered by 3 sources How a Frontier Model Gets Built, Read from the Kimi K3 Report
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Towards Data Science China’s tech advances are causing chaos from Silicon Valley to the White House
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The Guardian Chinese AI Researchers Are Finding Their Voice on X
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Wired Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS
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AWS Blog With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook
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Rest of World Moonshot AI Open-Sources MoonEP: A Perfectly Balanced Expert Parallelism Library for MoE Training
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MarkTechPost Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential
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ZDNet Moonshot AI Blows Past Its Funding Target Ahead of a Hong Kong IPO
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Unite.AI Sam Altman on model distillation: “This is not in my top ten list of worries”
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The New Stack (AI) China accuses the US of ‘AI hegemonism’ and threatens countermeasures
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The Next Web Kimi AI and kvcache-ai Open Sources ‘AgentENV’: A Distributed System that Powers Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) Training for Kimi K3
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MarkTechPost Why China is giving away its best AI models
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Covered by 3 sources Moonshot Opens Kimi K3 Weights Under a Revenue-Tiered License
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Unite.AI Is KimiClaw a Useful Tool?
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KDnuggets Kimi K3 and Kimi K3 Fast with ZDR and US-based providers now on AI Gateway
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Vercel Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI
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TechCrunch China-US AI Race Escalates, OpenAI Models Break Free, and Why You Should Check Your Car Alarm
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Wired As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
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Covered by 2 sources OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t Confirm Distillation
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The Next Web Choose Your Fighter: Nvidia CEO and Jim Cramer Offer Dueling Visions of AI’s Future
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Gizmodo China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
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Wired Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
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TechCrunch Why are OpenAI and Anthropic cheering on regulation in Australia? The answer has global reach
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The Guardian Moonshot is chasing a $50bn valuation, and it wants two funding rounds to get there
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The Next Web Washington wants to sanction Chinese AI for ‘theft’. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says that’s backwards.
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Covered by 2 sources It’s Official: AI Execs Are Quaking in Their Boots
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Futurism US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
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Covered by 2 sources OpenAI Exec Laments That China Is Giving Away Models So Good That For-Profit Companies Won’t Be Able to Compete
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+1Covered by 4 sources Kimi K3 is so popular Moonshot ran out of GPUs and paused new sign-ups
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The Next Web China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
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The Verge Moonshot plans to list in Hong Kong within six months at a $30 billion valuation
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The Next Web Kimi: Threat or menace?
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TechCrunch Moonshot unveils Kimi K3, the world’s largest open AI model
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The Next Web Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8
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Covered by 3 sources Moonshot AI wants a $30bn valuation six months after being worth $4bn. That tells you everything about China’s AI funding race.
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The Next Web Moonshot AI’s $20bn valuation seals one of China’s fastest AI funding trajectories
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Covered by 2 sources Cursor admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Kimi
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TechCrunch That's everything we have on Moonshot AI right now